Shadowing Practice: 全英｜为什么很多美国女孩不想结婚？Why aren't people getting married anymore? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What do American girls really think about marriage?
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To be honest, from my experience,
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I would say that most of us don't want to get married at all.
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But that's not to say that there aren't a lot of people here who still want to get married,
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and of course, everyone has their own opinions about marriage.
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But overall, I think the trend is that most Americans are not getting married,
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or they're getting married much later in life.
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First, I think it's really important to understand
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that our dating culture is really different
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and most people here will date purely out of love
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and we don't really consider too much about our partner's financial status
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or their job or how much property they have and no,
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there is no Tylee in America.
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Usually after you're married, you'll go buy a house together and and combine your incomes to pay it off together.
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So when we're dating, we basically just think it's important to find someone with similar values and similar life goals,
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but mostly we want someone that we can fall in love with
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and someone who brings joy and happiness to our day-to-day life.
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Because if we're gonna spend the rest of our life with one person,
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it better be someone that we truly want to see every day.
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So why don't American girls want to get married?
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There are two main reasons,
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and the first one is that it's super hard to find a really good guy here.
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A lot of American guys don't do any household chores.
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They're not really good at taking care of the kids and they can be extremely selfish.
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So for girls after they get married they're expected to keep doing their full-time jobs
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and take care of the house and do all of the child care.
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So I can tell you from experience of watching my mom do this,
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it can get really really exhausting.
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In Chinese, there's the phrase 中男情女,
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and I think a lot of people think that America isn't this way,
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but in most places, I would say it really is,
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and girls are expected to do a lot more than boys.
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For example, I have three brothers,
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and I'm the only daughter,
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so I was expected to do a lot more than them and before I was even 10 years old,
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I could cook, clean, do the dishes,
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mow the yard, take care of the house,
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and take care of my younger brothers.
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Literally anything needed to be done around the house,
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I could do it and I was expected to do it.
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But even to this day,
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I don't even think that some of my brothers know how to do the laundry.
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So there are a lot of things in American culture that are are really unfair for women and in turn,
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it's kind of given us this negative impression of marriage.
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And this leads us to the second reason that American girls don't really want to get married anymore,
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which is because these days most girls can live a very full and happy life being totally independent.
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More and more women are getting a better education,
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which leads them to higher paying jobs and being able to fully support themselves.
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In the past, girls were expected to get married and have kids
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and just live as a housewife and
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if you didn't do this it was basically socially unacceptable and you could be ostracized from society.
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But now I would say most of the girls that I know are living perfectly happy lives,
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being totally independent, and they have a good group of friends
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and family who support them while they go study or work to support themselves.
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Getting married is definitely not the main focus of their entire life.
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I think it's super important
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that girls are able to have this choice to choose what they want their future to be
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and while it may be the case that most Americans don't really want to get married,
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there are still plenty of Americans who do get married.
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Especially if you go to some smaller towns in America where the cost of living is much lower
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and people can have a more relaxed lifestyle,
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you'll be able to see more and more people getting married
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and having kids because they don't need to work so much
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or they can rely on one person's income if they have a really good job.
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So in these situations there are some women who are housewives and there's no real negative connotation to this word
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unless you say it like she's just a housewife.
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Then it can come off as really judgmental.
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Most Americans don't really judge when someone says they're a housewife
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or a stay-at-home mom or something like that
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because we know how hard it is to take care of the whole house and to raise kids basically on your own.
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Some people might feel jealous
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or they might feel like those women aren't living up to their full potential by just being a housewife,
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but those judgmental people are really just a minority.
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So even though a lot of American girls are choosing not to get married recently,
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I would say that deep down,
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a lot of us still do want to get married.
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It's just really hard to find the right person.
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I think marriage should be pretty simple and easy and really romantic as long as we have that right person.
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But without that person, I think it just makes life way more difficult for a lot of women.
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Anyway, I hope this video helped you understand more about American culture
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and let me know in the comments if you share any similar thoughts
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or feelings or if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll see you guys next time.
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Bye!
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “全英｜为什么很多美国女孩不想结婚？Why aren't people getting married anymore?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: married, girls, expected, housewife, marriage. Deze video bevat 83 zinnen en 983 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:52. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 168 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 91% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 8 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| housewife zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhaʊs.waɪf/ | huisvrouw |
| connotation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/ | connotatie, bijbetekenis |
| ostracize werkwoord | /ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/ | mijden, uitstoten |
| exhaust werkwoord | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | uitputten, verminderen |
| unacceptable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/ | onaanvaardbaar, onacceptabel |
| laundry zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ | was |
| selfish bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | egoïstisch, zelfzuchtig |
| combine werkwoord | /kəmˈbaɪn/ | combineren |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | are expected · was expected · be done |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | someone who brings · women who are |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 25 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, they're, aren't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: connotation /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: connotation /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als housewife, connotation, ostracize.
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